[TechAssist] Re: Resistor color code--strange colors!

  • From: becyn <becyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:26:34 -0400

On some very low tolerance resistors they use three signifcant digits 
instead of two.
so : 220 X .01 = 2.2. Is there a fifth band? That would be the tolerance

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Hugh @ Main TV wrote:

>Ok techs---what would you say this resistor is----red-red-black- silver-?    I 
>said 22 ohms -----but Sony says 2.2 ohms  they made up their own color code?
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